Metropolitan fetish : African sculpture and the imperial French invention of primitive art

New York: Ithaca, Cornell University Press (2019)
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A history of the French reception of African art, especially wooden masks and figures, in the first four decades of the twentieth century, and how that reception led to the creation of the broader aesthetic category Westerners now know as "primitive art.

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